HOLMES, Albert, b. 1829: 1905 Bio, San Miguel County, Colorado

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Donated June 2004

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net> from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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Albert Holmes



	Albert Holmes, of Telluride, who during the last twenty-one years has faithfully 

served the people of San Miguel county as a justice of the peace, and the town of 

Telluride seventeen years as police judge, is a native of New York city, where he was 

born on November 10, 1829.  He is the son of Albert and Johanna Holmes, the former a 

native of Massachusetts and the latter of New York.  Their son Albert grew to manhood 

in the city of his nativity, and was educated in the public schools.  After leaving school he 

learned the trade of carpenter, and in 1855, when he was twenty-six years of age, went to 

Michigan where for a number of years he was employed at his trade and engaged in the 

furniture business.  He also served three years at his trade in that state as a justice of the 

peace.  In 1882 he came to what is now San Miguel county, this state, and went to work 

at his trade.  But in the fall of that year he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, 

and he has held the office continuously since that time by successive re-elections.  During 

this long period of twenty-three years he has also served seventeen years as police judge 

of the city of Telluride, and in both capacities he has given such general satisfaction that 

there has been no demand for a change in the personnel of the official.  He was married 

in Michigan, in 1862, to Miss Clementine Dolly, also a native of New York city, whose 

parents moved to Michigan in its territorial days.  She died at Telluride on July 7, 1891, 

leaving no children.  The Judge has a pleasant home in the city which is a center of 

generous and considerate hospitality, where his hosts of friends are always sure of a 

cordial welcome.  Besides being an important factor in preserving the peace of the 

community and establishing the forms and administering the spirit of the law, he has been 

active in every good work for building up and improving the county and increasing the 

comfort and conveniences of its people.  He is highly esteem as a citizen, held in cordial 

regard as a friend, and has the confidence and good will of the whole community.  









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